Good news for at least one of the staff members fired by Tokyopop in that publisher’s recent purge: Paul Morrissey has taken an unspecified editing role with Boom! Studios, according to a press release from Boom. Morrissey was a senior editor at Tokyopop, working on books such as Fruit Baskets, Undertown and Pantheon High. Boom…
After the success of Boom! Studios’ MySpace promotion for the comic series North Wind, no surprise that the publisher is adding more free comics online. Boom just sent out a release noting the addition of Web comics, which you can read free online at Boom’s site. These aren’t new comics, but online versions of previously…
One-time Meltdown Comics retailer Matt Gagnon continues a rapid climb in comics, as he’s just been named Boom! Studios’ new managing editor. He started on at Boom in March to help edit their upcoming Farscape series, and now he’ll be overseeing the entirety of Boom’s line of comics. That’s a surprisingly quick climb, especially for…
Boom! Studios just announced that its upcoming Pulp Tales one-shot will benefit artist Josh Medors, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. The book is set to debut in limited number at San Diego Comic Con later this month before a full retail run (though no date on the public release was given). Two covers will…
In the past few months, BOOM! Studios has had a spate of comics picked up for movie adaptations, but now that flow of comics-to-screen is reversing course. The publisher just announced a deal with the Jim Henson Company to create multiple four-issue series adapted from the sci fi TV show Farscape. The show ran for…
After a successful run of comics sales, fueled in part by a special release on MySpace, the series North Wind has been picked up by Hollywood. The book follows the few people living in California after global warming brings on a new ice age and covers sunny LA in snow and ice. According to a…
It’s nine days away from the big New York Comic Con here on the East Coast, and that leaves us time for a big trip to the comic stores to get us ready. There’s plenty on the shelves, and we preview it all here, plus: — Boom Studios’ Northwind is next in line for the…
Boom! Studios has made a name for itself as a comic book version of the Spike TV network, but this week the publisher released two new collections that step away from that formula. The first, Jenny Finn: Doom Messiah ($14.99) is a collection of the three original Jenny Finn issues and the all new fourth…
Comic readers looking for a monthly fix of slimy, tentacled horror from the inky blackness, it appears that your search is over. Boom! Studios has decided to take its former Cthulhu Tales one-shots the monthly route beginning in March, providing a regular fix of Lovecraftian horror for aficianadoes of the Ancient Ones’ dark shenanigans. CBR…
Well, here’s one that flew entirely under my radar: Kim Krizan, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for "Before Sunset", will be one of several writers contributing stories to Zombie Tales from Boom! Studios, which is being relaunched as a monthly anthology series in April. Krizan will join horror veterans Steve Niles and Joe R. Lansdale in…
Boom! Studios has announced that the writer/director/producer team behind the Warner Brothers film The Astronaut Farmer, set to open on February 23 will be following up by launching a project called Salvador "in the world of comic books." The teaser gave no further information, but they could be talking about this offering found on the…
